Tropical Storms Irene and Lee floodedtowns across the Northeast US last summer. In the Catskills region of upstate New York, four people died. Many more were cut off from the outside world without access to power, telephone, or clean water. Houses washed away. Roads and bridges vanished. Families lost track of each other.

Everyone in the Catskills has a flood story. Some of them made national -- even international -- news. But most didn’t.

The Watershed Post’s Faces of the Flood Project tells untold stories of the 2011 Catskills floods as a result of Tropical Storms Irene and Lee and was born from a partnership with Christopher, the staff of the Watershed Post and students from SUNY New Paltz’s journalism program.The series is published on August 28, 2012:The one-year anniversary of the floods.